Category: Contests

  • 2022 World Press Photo Contest Winners Announced — Blind Magazine

    2022 World Press Photo Contest Winners Announced — Blind Magazine

    2022 World Press Photo Contest Winners Announced — Blind Magazine

    The World Press Photo Contest recognizes the best photojournalism and documentary photography of the previous year. This year, the winners were chosen out of 64,823 photographs and open format entries, by 4,066 photographers from 130 countries.  World Press Photo of the Year: Kamloops Residential SchoolAmber Bracken, Canada, for The New York Times Red dresses hung […]

    via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/2022-world-press-photo-contest-winners-announced/

    Global jury chair Rena Effendi said about this image: “It is a kind of image that sears itself into your memory, it inspires a kind of sensory reaction. I could almost hear the quietness in this photograph, a quiet moment of global reckoning for the history of colonization, not only in Canada but around the world.”

  • Winners of 2022 World Press Photo Contest

    Colonisation and environmental loss the focus of winning World Press Photos

    Colonisation and environmental loss the focus of winning World Press Photos

    The contest recognises the best in photojournalism and documentary photography from around the world.

    via The Sydney Morning Herald: https://www.smh.com.au/culture/art-and-design/colonisation-and-environmental-loss-the-focus-of-winning-world-press-photos-20220407-p5abjl.html

    The legacy of colonisation and environmental loss were the focus of the winning photographs in this year’s World Press Photo Contest.

  • Canadian Amber Bracken wins World Press Photo of the Year for residential school memorial photo – The Globe and Mail

    Canadian Amber Bracken wins World Press Photo of the Year for residential school memorial photo

    Canadian Amber Bracken wins World Press Photo of the Year for residential school memorial photo

    Photo of a memorial on Tk’emlups te Secwepemc land just outside Kamloops, B.C., has been named the World Press Photo of the Year

    via The Globe and Mail: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/art-and-architecture/article-canadian-photojournalist-amber-bracken-wins-world-press-photo-of-the/

    Canadian Amber Bracken wins World Press Photo of the Year for residential school memorial photo

  • The Regional Winners of the 2022 World Press Photography Competition | PetaPixel

    The Regional Winners of the 2022 World Press Photography Competition

    The Regional Winners of the 2022 World Press Photography Competition

    The World Press Photo organization has announced the winners of its 2022 competition. Now in its 65th year, the competition recently switched to a new

    via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/03/24/the-regional-winners-of-the-2022-world-press-photography-competition/

    The World Press Photo organization switched to a new regional model for the 2022 competition, as it found that there was an imbalance in representation among entrants, stories, and winners. In 2021, only 7% of entrants came from South America, 5% from Southeast Asia and Oceania, and 3% from Africa. The organization felt that this was not representative of the photojournalistic talent around the world, and sought to change its methods to reflect that.

  • Leica Announces its Women Foto Project Award Winners | PetaPixel

    Leica Announces its Women Foto Project Award Winners

    Leica Announces its Women Foto Project Award Winners

    To expand diverse representation in photography.

    via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/03/09/leica-announces-leica-women-foto-project-award-winners-and-mentees/

    Leica Camera has announced the winners of the third annual Leica Women Foto Project Award in partnership with Fotografiska and VII Photo Agency, with the aim of expanding diverse representation in photography and empowering the female point of view.

  • Chris Johns Lifetime Achievement Award – The Photo Society

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    The Photo Society is proud to announce Chris Johns, former staff photographer and Executive Editor of National Geographic magazine is this years Lifetime Achievement winner.

  • ‘We don’t have a limit’: Yasuyoshi Chiba – agency photographer of 2021 | World news | The Guardian

    ‘We don’t have a limit’: Yasuyoshi Chiba – agency photographer of 2021

    ‘We don’t have a limit’: Yasuyoshi Chiba – agency photographer of 2021

    Yasuyoshi Chiba has been chosen by the picture desk as its agency photographer of the year. We hear from the AFP photojournalist

    via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/dec/23/we-dont-have-a-limit-yasuyoshi-chiba-agency-photographer-of-2021

    Yasuyoshi Chiba has been chosen by the picture desk as its agency photographer of the year. We hear from the AFP photojournalist

  • 2021 Winners | Yunghi Grant

    2021 Winners

    2021 Winners

    The Yunghi Grant Winner 2021

    via Yunghi Grant: https://yunghikim.wordpress.com/2021/12/25/2409/

    The Yunghi Grant is especially mindful of photojournalist’s growth: personally and professionally. The perseverance and resilience to take a story to its conclusion, or nearly so is well noted.

  • Photographing the Russian Occupation of Georgia | Blind

    Photographing the Russian Occupation of Georgia

    Photographing the Russian Occupation of Georgia

    Robakidze’s project “Creeping Borders” looks at the Russian presence in Georgia, and the effects of the installation of artificial barriers along the occupation line on the lives of both individuals and whole communities.

    Link: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/photographing-the-russian-occupation-of-georgia-en

    Tako Robakidze’s project “Creeping Borders” looks at the Russian presence in Georgia, and the effects of the installation of artificial barriers along the occupation line on the lives of both individuals and whole communities.

  • Film Photo Award Fall 2021 Finalists – LENSCRATCH

    Film Photo Award Fall 2021 Finalists - LENSCRATCH

    Film Photo Award Fall 2021 Finalists – LENSCRATCH

    Today we share the Student Project Finalists and the Visionary Project Finalists the in the Film Photo Award Fall 2021. The Film Photo Award Fall 2021 Juror, Larisa Leclair shares some remarks about the selections: In the 1990’s, just before the integration of digital photography into the college curriculum, I was a student getting my

    via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2021/11/film-photo-award-fall-2021-finalists/

    Today we share the Student Project Finalists and the Visionary Project Finalists in the Fall 2021 Film Photo Award .

  • On the Depiction of Africans in Photo Contests – PhotoShelter Blog

    On the Depiction of Africans in Photo Contests
    For many years, the photo contest industry has contended with accusations of racism and classism for awarding and promoting “poverty porn.” Although many contests have worked to diversify their juries and tried to attract a broader field of entrants, barely a year goes by without a major issue or scandal.
  • LOBA Winner 2021: Ana María Arévalo Gosen – YouTube

    The series by this year’s Leica Oskar Barnack Award winner Ana María Arévalo Gosen is titled “Días Eternos”, which translates as “Eternal Days”. It addresses the appalling living conditions of women in prisons. The motifs were taken in prisons in Venezuela and El Salvador, since 2017. Arévalo Gosen shows the causes and consequences of imprisonment; not only for the women, but also for their families and Latin American society.
  • LOBA Winner Newcomer 2021: Emile Ducke – YouTube

    Kolyma – Along the Road of Bones: Thousands of gulag inmates from the Stalin era died while helping to build a high-speed road through the remote Kolyma region of Siberia. During his journey along the so-called “Road of Bones”, the German documentary photographer, was not only searching for remnants of the former forced labour camps, but also questioning how they are being remembered today.
  • Ralph Gibson – Leica Hall of Fame Award 2021 winner – YouTube

    Ralph Gibson, this year’s winner of the Leica Hall of Fame Award, tells the story of his outstanding career as a photographer. In more than six decades, he has created a multifaceted body of work that is also directly associated with Leica
  • LOBA shortlist candidates 2021 – YouTube

    The shortlist candidates of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2021 and their submitted photo series.
  • The Best Panoramic Photos of 2021: Epson International Pano Awards | PetaPixel

    https://petapixel.com/2021/10/20/the-best-panoramic-photos-of-2021-epson-international-pano-awards/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+petapixel+%28PetaPixel%29
    The Epson International Pano Awards is the largest competition for panoramic photography and has announced its 2021 winners, with a misty cypress tree panorama awarded the top prize.
  • The Foto Awards presented by Las Fotos Project: Smita Sharma in Conversation with Anna Grevenitis – LENSCRATCH

    http://lenscratch.com/2021/10/anna-in-conversation-with-smita-sharma/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lenscratch%2FZAbG+%28L++E++N++S++C++R++A++T++C++H%29
    Smita Sharma is an award winning photojournalist and visual storyteller based in Delhi, reporting on critical human rights, gender and social issues in her own community as well as in the Global South on assignments for Human Rights Watch, National Geographic Magazine, and other publications.
  • Announcing the Series Winners of the Emerging Photography Awards 2021 – Feature Shoot

    Announcing the Series Winners of the Emerging Photography Awards 2021
    We’re delighted to announce the twelve winners of the 7th Annual Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Awards, with the selected artists spanning genres as well as continents. Christian K. Lee, Maggie Shannon, Jooeun Bae, Anouchka Renaud-Eck, Sandra Cattaneo Adorno, Daniela Constantini, J. Lester Feder, Michael Young, Matthew Barbarino, Rob Darby, Hanne Van Assche, and Horace Li will be featured in group exhibitions opening at BBA Gallery in Berlin on October 30th and at Studio Galerie B&B in Paris on November 7th.
  • The Recipients of the 42nd W. Eugene Smith Fund Grant | Blind

    https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/the-recipients-of-the-42nd-w-eugene-smith-fund-grant-en
    The Award is being shared among five photographers covering stories from around the world. Each winner will receive $10,000 to be used to continue their individual projects on a range of subjects.
  • Announcing the Winning Artists of the Creator Labs Photo Fund

    Announcing the Winning Artists of the Creator Labs Photo Fund
    This summer, Aperture and Google’s Creator Labs teamed up to launch a new initiative, the Creator Labs Photo Fund, aimed at providing financial support to photographers in the wake of COVID-19. Selected by Aperture’s editors, the twenty winning artists are recognized for their exceptional vision as well as the strength and originality of their portfolios, and will be awarded a prize of $5,000 each to sustain their work and practice.